I don't think anyone here has been bothered with the drop of posts numbers, what I think we were discussing are ways to attract TS visitors to the forums.
Like I said before, over 15,000 unique visitors come by TS daily so if we could have, say 5% of them, as regular forum visitors too then we would have a bigger forum that would also end up being a better resource for info and discussion.
Obviously, bigger doesn't equal to better, but when we are talking of mature forum members, then it is better...